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MARIE TOMANOVA CZECH REPUBLIC, b. 1984

BIOGRAPHY

Czech-born Marie Tomanova grew up in a South Moravian border town, Mikulov. After receiving a painting MFA she left for the United States, where she turned to photography. Displacement, identity, gender, and memory became key themes in her work. Tomanova has had solo shows worldwide including in New York City, Prague, Tokyo, and Paris; her work has been exhibited in Berlin for the European Month of Photography 2020 Biennial, at Paris Photo (2023), and at the Rencontres d’Arles as part of the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2021 (Arles, France). At Rencontres d’Arles it was selected to travel to the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in Xiamen, China in 2021. Tomanova’s first book, Young American (Paradigm Publishing, 2019) focuses on individuality, identity, and belonging in the American social landscape. It features a foreword by acclaimed photographer Ryan McGinley and sold out shortly after its publication. Deftly entwining portraiture and landscape to recontextualize and expand the meaning of each, Tomanova published, with art historian Thomas Beachdel, her second book, New York New York (Hatje Cantz, 2021) with a foreword by Kim Gordon. Her third book, It Was Once My Universe, with foreword by Lucy Sante, was published by SuperLabo, Japan in fall of 2022. It’s a deeply personal project about her return home to the Czech Republic after eight years in exile as an immigrant living in the United States. World Between Us, a feature length HBO documentary by director Marie Dvořáková on Tomanova’s trajectory as an artist, will be premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Ji.Hlava in October, 2024.

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C24 EXHIBITIONS

2024 LOST AND FOUND
2021 FINDING MAGIC TOGETHER

2020 ON THE INSIDE: PORTRAITURE THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY

NEWS

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2022 BOMB

2022 BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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